The trace-dev-div inequality in $H^s$ controls the trace in the norm of $H^s$ by that of the deviatoric part plus the $H^{s-1}$ norm of the divergence of a quadratic tensor field different from the constant unit matrix. This is well known for $s=0$ and established for orders $0\le s\le 1$ and arbitrary space dimension in this note. For mixed and least-squares finite element error analysis in linear elasticity, this inequality allows to establish robustness with respect to the Lam\'e parameter $\lambda$.
The classical Heawood inequality states that if the complete graph $K_n$ on $n$ vertices is embeddable in the sphere with $g$ handles, then $g \ge\dfrac{(n-3)(n-4)}{12}$. A higher-dimensional analogue of the Heawood inequality is the K\"uhnel conjecture. In a simplified form it states that for every integer $k>0$ there is $c_k>0$ such that if the union of $k$-faces of $n$-simplex embeds into the connected sum of $g$ copies of the Cartesian product $S^k\times S^k$ of two $k$-dimensional spheres, then $g\ge c_k n^{k+1}$. For $k>1$ only linear estimates were known. We present a quadratic estimate $g\ge c_k n^2$. The proof is based on beautiful and fruitful interplay between geometric topology, combinatorics and linear algebra.
For $h$-FEM discretisations of the Helmholtz equation with wavenumber $k$, we obtain $k$-explicit analogues of the classic local FEM error bounds of [Nitsche, Schatz 1974], [Wahlbin 1991], [Demlow, Guzm\'an, Schatz 2011], showing that these bounds hold with constants independent of $k$, provided one works in Sobolev norms weighted with $k$ in the natural way. We prove two main results: (i) a bound on the local $H^1$ error by the best approximation error plus the $L^2$ error, both on a slightly larger set, and (ii) the bound in (i) but now with the $L^2$ error replaced by the error in a negative Sobolev norm. The result (i) is valid for shape-regular triangulations, and is the $k$-explicit analogue of the main result of [Demlow, Guzm\'an, Schatz, 2011]. The result (ii) is valid when the mesh is locally quasi-uniform on the scale of the wavelength (i.e., on the scale of $k^{-1}$) and is the $k$-explicit analogue of the results of [Nitsche, Schatz 1974], [Wahlbin 1991]. Since our Sobolev spaces are weighted with $k$ in the natural way, the result (ii) indicates that the Helmholtz FEM solution is locally quasi-optimal modulo low frequencies (i.e., frequencies $\lesssim k$). Numerical experiments confirm this property, and also highlight interesting propagation phenomena in the Helmholtz FEM error.
In this paper, we introduce a novel non-linear uniform subdivision scheme for the generation of curves in $\mathbb{R}^n$, $n\geq2$. This scheme is distinguished by its capacity to reproduce second-degree polynomial data on non-uniform grids without necessitating prior knowledge of the grid specificities. Our approach exploits the potential of annihilation operators to infer the underlying grid, thereby obviating the need for end-users to specify such information. We define the scheme in a non-stationary manner, ensuring that it progressively approaches a classical linear scheme as the iteration number increases, all while preserving its polynomial reproduction capability. The convergence is established through two distinct theoretical methods. Firstly, we propose a new class of schemes, including ours, for which we establish $\mathcal{C}^1$ convergence by combining results from the analysis of quasilinear schemes and asymptotically equivalent linear non-uniform non-stationary schemes. Secondly, we adapt conventional analytical tools for non-linear schemes to the non-stationary case, allowing us to again conclude the convergence of the proposed class of schemes. We show its practical usefulness through numerical examples, showing that the generated curves are curvature continuous.
Let $P$ be a $k$-colored set of $n$ points in the plane, $4 \leq k \leq n$. We study the problem of deciding if $P$ contains a subset of four points of different colors such that its Rectilinear Convex Hull has positive area. We provide an $O(n \log n)$-time algorithm for this problem, where the hidden constant does not depend on $k$; then, we prove that this problem has time complexity $\Omega(n \log n)$ in the algebraic computation tree model. No general position assumptions for $P$ are required.
We examine rules for predicting whether a point in $\mathbb{R}$ generated from a 50-50 mixture of two different probability distributions came from one distribution or the other, given limited (or no) information on the two distributions, and, as clues, one point generated randomly from each of the two distributions. We prove that nearest-neighbor prediction does better than chance when we know the two distributions are Gaussian densities without knowing their parameter values. We conjecture that this result holds for general probability distributions and, furthermore, that the nearest-neighbor rule is optimal in this setting, i.e., no other rule can do better than it if we do not know the distributions or do not know their parameters, or both.
It is well known that every bivariate copula induces a positive measure on the Borel $\sigma$-algebra on $[0,1]^2$, but there exist bivariate quasi-copulas that do not induce a signed measure on the same $\sigma$-algebra. In this paper we show that a signed measure induced by a bivariate quasi-copula can always be expressed as an infinite combination of measures induced by copulas. With this we are able to give the first characterization of measure-inducing quasi-copulas in the bivariate setting.
Recently, Steinbach et al. introduced a novel operator $\mathcal{H}_T: L^2(0,T) \to L^2(0,T)$, known as the modified Hilbert transform. This operator has shown its significance in space-time formulations related to the heat and wave equations. In this paper, we establish a direct connection between the modified Hilbert transform $\mathcal{H}_T$ and the canonical Hilbert transform $\mathcal{H}$. Specifically, we prove the relationship $\mathcal{H}_T \varphi = -\mathcal{H} \tilde{\varphi}$, where $\varphi \in L^2(0,T)$ and $\tilde{\varphi}$ is a suitable extension of $\varphi$ over the entire $\mathbb{R}$. By leveraging this crucial result, we derive some properties of $\mathcal{H}_T$, including a new inversion formula, that emerge as immediate consequences of well-established findings on $\mathcal{H}$.
This paper studies the asymptotics of resampling without replacement in the proportional regime where dimension $p$ and sample size $n$ are of the same order. For a given dataset $(\bm{X},\bm{y})\in\mathbb{R}^{n\times p}\times \mathbb{R}^n$ and fixed subsample ratio $q\in(0,1)$, the practitioner samples independently of $(\bm{X},\bm{y})$ iid subsets $I_1,...,I_M$ of $\{1,...,n\}$ of size $q n$ and trains estimators $\bm{\hat{\beta}}(I_1),...,\bm{\hat{\beta}}(I_M)$ on the corresponding subsets of rows of $(\bm{X},\bm{y})$. Understanding the performance of the bagged estimate $\bm{\bar{\beta}} = \frac1M\sum_{m=1}^M \bm{\hat{\beta}}(I_1),...,\bm{\hat{\beta}}(I_M)$, for instance its squared error, requires us to understand correlations between two distinct $\bm{\hat{\beta}}(I_m)$ and $\bm{\hat{\beta}}(I_{m'})$ trained on different subsets $I_m$ and $I_{m'}$. In robust linear regression and logistic regression, we characterize the limit in probability of the correlation between two estimates trained on different subsets of the data. The limit is characterized as the unique solution of a simple nonlinear equation. We further provide data-driven estimators that are consistent for estimating this limit. These estimators of the limiting correlation allow us to estimate the squared error of the bagged estimate $\bm{\bar{\beta}}$, and for instance perform parameter tuning to choose the optimal subsample ratio $q$. As a by-product of the proof argument, we obtain the limiting distribution of the bivariate pair $(\bm{x}_i^T \bm{\hat{\beta}}(I_m), \bm{x}_i^T \bm{\hat{\beta}}(I_{m'}))$ for observations $i\in I_m\cap I_{m'}$, i.e., for observations used to train both estimates.
In the product $L_1\times L_2$ of two Kripke complete consistent logics, local tabularity of $L_1$ and $L_2$ is necessary for local tabularity of $L_1\times L_2$. However, it is not sufficient: the product of two locally tabular logics can be not locally tabular. We provide extra semantic and axiomatic conditions which give criteria of local tabularity of the product of two locally tabular logics. Then we apply them to identify new families of locally tabular products.
Given a graph $G$, denote by $h(G)$ the smallest size of a subset of $V(G)$ which intersects every maximum independent set of $G$. We prove that any graph $G$ without induced matching of size $t$ satisfies $h(G)\le \omega(G)^{3t-3+o(1)}$. This resolves a conjecture of Hajebi, Li and Spirkl (Hitting all maximum stable sets in $P_{5}$-free graphs, JCTB 2024).